Chapter 7: Twin Tentacle(18+)
"Nana..." Rebecca hugged her in her nightgown. Nana was still sad that Alex had died. She cried when Rebecca handed his body to the adventurer's guild.
"Master Alex..." Nana muttered as she accepted Rebecca's hug.
Nana was the daughter of a merchant. When she went to the academy, she promised her father that if she didn't make it as a knight, she would become a concubine of a wealthy and perverted merchant from her father's connections. Her enthusiasm and positivity were soon replaced by despair as she continued to study in the academy.
She was a mediocre archer. She might have been accepted if she had aimed to become an apprentice town guard, but her skills wouldn't have cut it to become a Royal Knight. Royal Knights were prestigious soldiers of the empire, accepting only a handful of commoners every year, and Nana was far from the top. When she heard this, she became depressed. Her imagination of becoming a perverted noble's plaything, older than her father, sent her into despair.
Then came Alex. Alex and Rebecca were engaged, but deep down, Alex didn't fancy Rebecca's childish body. That's when he and Nana got closer. She was in a knight course too, after all. That's also when Nana and Rebecca met.
Alex and Rebecca's relationship was one of an arranged marriage. Rebecca didn't hate Alex, but she didn't love him either. Rebecca wanted to marry him because he was the first son of a count. She, being only the fifth daughter, had no value in her parents' eyes.
Despite being a noble and having the aptitude for magic, her magical exam was disastrous. Her score was so low that she actually failed the exam. The main reason for her failure was her low stats. With her abysmal strength and dexterity, she couldn't become a spell blade. Moreover, her Mag stats were mediocre at best compared to long-range mages.
Unlike Alex, who took the academy's lessons like a spoiled kid, she worked hard. But her hard work was not rewarded. Having no other choice, she dreamed of becoming Alex's wife and at least trying to get into his knight order to level up. She dreamed of getting some kind of skill to mitigate her stats, but it was merely a dream.
Stat gains were constant through level-ups. Unless someone had a skill like growth enhancement, her stats would fall behind her peers at the same level. The academy provided monsters for its students to level up until level 10. They knew about Rebecca's lack of potential and saw investing in her as fruitless, so they failed her.
With Alex's death, Rebecca's future was now uncertain. Even though she provided consolation to Nana, her heart was filled with its own worry. They could continue being adventurers, but Rebecca's stats would be detrimental to the party. She would soon be cast away like used gloves. If that time came, she would have to return to her house and beg.
Hiro saw them and looked at them lecherously. He formed plans on how to make them fall to pleasure. After gathering his thoughts, he started to enact his plan. His skills carried over and synced with the tentacle inside them. So, even though he inhabited Nana and Rebecca's bodies, his cell storage remained the same as in Cecile.